Buffalo Thorn Lodge – What a Treasure Debbie and David Greaves Excitement was building as we started to pack for our stay at Buffalo Thorn Lodge. Food, check; snacks, check; Amarula check. All ready to go and GPS plugged in, we set off with great expectancy in our hearts. Before we knew it…
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Nov
Nov
Our Story of the Most Amazing Buffalo Thorn Lodge Annette Kauppinen and Janne Marniemi, Finland I love Africa and therefore have been there several times. What amazes me the most is the African light and the safaris. I have been in Kruger many times, in Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique, but the Pilanesberg National Park is…
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Sep
Sep
Excitement for the Middletons of Palm Beach, Florida… We researched each part of our South African vacation carefully. The most important part was the family safari. We learned about Buffalo Thorn Lodge as a place South African families go for 5 star amenities and guiding. The more we researched, the more we liked it. Buffalo…
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Sep
Sep
Waking up at Buffalo Thorn Lodge Jason and Cezanne Zeeman Waking up at Buffalo Thorn Lodge is always special. You almost can’t wait to see what is going to be having an early morning drink at the waterhole just on your doorstep. On this particular morning, it was a pair of Black Backed Jackal….
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Aug
Aug
Rain’s 3 boys have started making Black Rhino their home as there seems to be a lot less pressure for them from the other apex predators, and the abundance of Impala, I am sure, is also a great attraction for them. It is so good to see these boys doing so well… and now that…
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Aug
Aug
What started out as a very quiet afternoon drive resulting in remembering that the bush is full of surprises? We left the Lodge looking for Rain’s (female cheetah in Pilansberg) cubs that had recently moved on to Black Rhino. After about 2 hours of seeing very little, we decided that we should rather go into…
We were having sundowners at the lookout after a great afternoon with lots of general game. After discussing and pondering on where we were going to find some cats, we decided that we would go straight to the Lodge and head for an extended drive into Pilanesberg itself the next morning. We packed up and…
What started out as a quiet morning drive… ended up being very exciting. We departed the Lodge as the sun rose, and not far from the Lodge we picked up on really fresh lion tracks. I decided to start tracking them and see what it led to, and quickly realised it was only one male’s…
We have just an amazing group of guests attend a very successful At Close Quarters Photographic Workshop @Buffalo Thorn Lodge. They were fortunate enough to have some amazing sightings like: Cheetah and lions on a kill. Over the four days, the guests attended theoretical lectures and headed into the bush on daily game drives to put…
One Thursday night, in February, between 10h30 and 11h00, two gun shots were heard by the anti-poaching guard up at the tower on the northern fence line. Our anti-poaching head went out to investigate and found that the fence were cut… and that could just mean just one thing poachers were in again! A couple of…